SCOM Contracts in England

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SCOM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCOM over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 419 555
Rank change year-on-year -22 +136 +106
Contract jobs citing SCOM 34 118 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.32% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.90% 2.70% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 97 59
10th Percentile £257 £425 £360
25th Percentile £425 £493 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £440
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +25.00% -4.14%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £579
90th Percentile £668 £623 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 9
10th Percentile - £22.08 -
25th Percentile - £22.13 -
Median hourly rate - £23.05 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -64.54% -
75th Percentile - £23.80 £65.75
90th Percentile - £44.40 -
UK median hourly rate - £23.05 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -64.54% -0.76%

All Systems Management Skills
England

SCOM falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,797 4,372 7,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.51% 12.02% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,612 3,202 5,432
10th Percentile £311 £258 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% -9.35% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £682
90th Percentile £717 £700 £763
UK median daily rate £523 £514 £561
% change year-on-year +1.78% -8.38% -0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 105 176
10th Percentile £16.97 £14.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.80 £17.72 £23.13
Median hourly rate £28.00 £25.77 £52.32
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% -50.75% +143.33%
75th Percentile £63.40 £48.75 £70.56
90th Percentile £83.58 £71.25 £82.75
UK median hourly rate £26.88 £25.77 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.31% -53.15% +144.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SCOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SCOM in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCOM in England.

Daily rate trend for SCOM in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCOM in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCOM in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCOM in England.

Hourly rate trend for SCOM in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCOM within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +15 14 £508 -16.07% 10
North of England +28 10 £373 - 5
North West +24 8 £320 - 1
South West +16 3 £650 +30.00%
Midlands +15 3 £525 +38.80% 2
East Midlands +9 3 £525 +16.93% 2
London +14 2 £825 +60.19% 5
Yorkshire - 2 £425 - 4
East of England +15 1 - - 4
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (23.53%) Skype for Business
2 7 (20.59%) Mattermost
3 4 (11.76%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (8.82%) Confluence
4 3 (8.82%) IIS
4 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (8.82%) Tomcat
5 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
6 1 (2.94%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) Azure
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.88%) AWS
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Stack
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Storage
4 1 (2.94%) Cohesity
4 1 (2.94%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (26.47%) Skype
2 7 (20.59%) Softphone
2 7 (20.59%) Unified Communications
2 7 (20.59%) WebEx
3 5 (14.71%) LAN
3 5 (14.71%) WAN
4 3 (8.82%) DHCP
4 3 (8.82%) DNS
4 3 (8.82%) Firewall
5 2 (5.88%) iSCSI
5 2 (5.88%) SAN
6 1 (2.94%) FTP
6 1 (2.94%) HTTP
6 1 (2.94%) Network Security
6 1 (2.94%) SMTP
6 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.94%) VPN
6 1 (2.94%) VSAN
6 1 (2.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.82%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.94%) GIS
3 1 (2.94%) MSDE
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) GitLab
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.88%) Law
5 1 (2.94%) Automotive
5 1 (2.94%) Finance
5 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Military
5 1 (2.94%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Analyst
1 9 (26.47%) Operations Analyst
2 8 (23.53%) Support Engineer
3 7 (20.59%) Messaging Engineer
3 7 (20.59%) Messaging Support
3 7 (20.59%) Messaging Support Engineer
3 7 (20.59%) Operations Engineer
3 7 (20.59%) Operations Support Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Messaging Analyst
4 6 (17.65%) Messaging Support Analyst
4 6 (17.65%) Operational Support Analyst
4 6 (17.65%) Operations Support Analyst
4 6 (17.65%) Support Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Administrator
7 2 (5.88%) ICT Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Windows Administrator
7 2 (5.88%) Windows Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) XMPP
2 4 (11.76%) .NET
3 3 (8.82%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (5.88%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.88%) Flash
5 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.94%) EDI
5 1 (2.94%) JSON
5 1 (2.94%) MSMQ
5 1 (2.94%) REST
5 1 (2.94%) SOAP
5 1 (2.94%) WCF
5 1 (2.94%) XML
5 1 (2.94%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Management Information System
2 5 (14.71%) PKI
3 3 (8.82%) Clustering
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.88%) Driving Licence
4 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.94%) Blackberry
5 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) RSA SecurID
5 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (58.82%) Windows
2 17 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 11 (32.35%) Linux
4 2 (5.88%) VMS
4 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) ITIL
2 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (23.53%) B2B
4 7 (20.59%) Problem Management
4 7 (20.59%) Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (20.59%) Service Management
5 6 (17.65%) Agile
6 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (14.71%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (11.76%) ITSM
7 4 (11.76%) Proactive Monitoring
8 3 (8.82%) Change Management
8 3 (8.82%) DevOps
8 3 (8.82%) High Availability
8 3 (8.82%) Mentoring
8 3 (8.82%) Migration
8 3 (8.82%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (8.82%) Project Management
8 3 (8.82%) Security Hardening
8 3 (8.82%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 14 (41.18%) SQL
3 1 (2.94%) ActionScript
3 1 (2.94%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (2.94%) Bicep
3 1 (2.94%) C#
3 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.94%) VB
3 1 (2.94%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 11 (32.35%) SC Cleared
3 7 (20.59%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (17.65%) Degree
5 5 (14.71%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.88%) CCNA
6 2 (5.88%) CCNP
6 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (5.88%) Master's Degree
6 2 (5.88%) MCSA
6 2 (5.88%) MCSE
6 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (47.06%) Active Directory
2 7 (20.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (8.82%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (5.88%) VMware NSX
4 2 (5.88%) vSphere
5 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (32.35%) SCCM
2 6 (17.65%) vCenter Server
3 3 (8.82%) Ansible
3 3 (8.82%) SCSM
4 2 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.88%) WSUS
5 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.94%) Perfmon
5 1 (2.94%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (73.53%) Microsoft
2 10 (29.41%) Cisco
2 10 (29.41%) VMware
3 8 (23.53%) Red Hat
4 7 (20.59%) SolarWinds
4 7 (20.59%) Splunk
5 6 (17.65%) ServiceNow
6 5 (14.71%) IBM
7 3 (8.82%) Dynatrace
8 2 (5.88%) Atlassian
8 2 (5.88%) HP
8 2 (5.88%) McAfee
9 1 (2.94%) AppDynamics
9 1 (2.94%) Citrix
9 1 (2.94%) Dell
9 1 (2.94%) Lotus
9 1 (2.94%) NetApp
9 1 (2.94%) Remedy
9 1 (2.94%) SAP